from the imagine-believing-your-own-bullshit-that-badly? dept

You may have heard some talk in the last week or so regarding a criminal case against two former FBI agents, supposedly having something to do with Hunter Biden’s infamous “laptop.” On Monday, a magistrate judge dismissed the case , noting that it was pure political hackery.

A federal judge on Monday tossed out a criminal case ​accusing two former senior FBI officials of lying about their involvement in an investigation of former President Joe Biden’s son ‌Hunter, excoriating the Justice Department for bringing what he said was a political prosecution before Tuesday’s midterm elections .

US Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui threw out the case at a remarkably early stage, finding that prosecutors had not shown sufficient evidence that the two officials, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, both former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence officials, had knowingly made false statements .

“What has transpired here cannot be described as anything other…